BRT Killer Driver: Another victim comes out, tells own experience with same driver on same route

As investigation continues into the murder of BRT passenger Bamise Ayankole, a victim of an earlier gender violence on the public transport bus has come out.

And the suspect, 47, is the same BRT driver that kidnapped Bamise in February.

Alisha, not real name, explained what seemed like the mode of operation of the serial rapist and, probably, murder the night he picked her up on the Island route.

“While on our way, he switched off the light of the bus, but the AC was on. But as we approached the first toll gate coming from Ajah, he suddenly parked the bus. He then told me to come and sit at the front and started asking me different questions,” she told the Punch in an exclusive interview.

Bamise, in the voice note she sent her friend when she started suspecting danger, also mentioned how Nice was asking her similar questions, ad talking friendship.

“I saw him using a drug and my thinking was that he parked the bus to use the drug before time ran out. A few minutes later, he started making advances towards me and I saw that his manhood had risen up. I became very uncomfortable and insisted on getting down, but he didn’t open the door.

“He said he wanted both of us to go and chill and that he wanted to have sex with me, but I declined. Suddenly, he brought out a knife and dragged me to the back seat of the bus. He told me to take off my clothes, but I refused. He threatened to kill me. He tore my gown, forcefully removed the biker short I wore and raped me. I felt sad.”

Calling for help was out of the question because Nice parked the bus somewhere isolated.

After raping her, the driver insisted on driving her to her destination at Jakande Bus Stop.

“When we got to my bus stop, he still didn’t open the door. He demanded my account number and started pleading over what he did. He said he wanted to send money to me to buy painkillers,” she told the newspaper.

“I refused to give him my account, but he kept demanding and refused to open the door. Before he raped me, he seized my phone, and because I needed evidence, I gave him my account and he sent N3,000. He then opened the door and I left.”

Alisha was just speaking out her now because she said she didn’t believe she could get justice.

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“But when his pictures started circulating online regarding the death of the lady (Oluwabamise), I told my friend that I knew him (Omininikoron).

“After seeing his coloured picture, I went to my bank, requested my statement of account, traced the day he sent me the money, and it was the same name, Omininikoron Nice, which was in the picture circulating.

“I told my friend about it and she introduced me to a rights activist. Some people may question me for speaking out now, but I am speaking out because of the girl. That man must not be freed because he is responsible for what happened.”

The state police command’s spokesperson CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu urged the victim to make a formal report of the incident.

Nice picked up the late victim Bamise at Oshodi sometimes in February. The lady whereabouts could not be confirmed until March, when her corpse turned up on Carter Bridge, Lagos, after the news of her disappearance got attention.